Columbus Day: It’s special to me; don’t hijack it

Having my own birthday fall on October 12 (the traditional Columbus Day), I am personally sensitive to the movement in recent years to erase my holiday and repurpose it to celebrate the people who were already in North America when he arrived.

Is it really necessary to besmirch his good name? Is there really no other day on the calendar available to honor the indigenous peoples?

Driscoll’s column simply parrots the revisionist history being passed off these days as correcting the errors of the past. Grouping Columbus with “murderers or rapists” doesn’t solve any problems. It perpetuates them.